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KARLSTAD, SWEDEN

 
Skogsbackeskolan

Skogsbackeskolan is a public school, situated about 3 kilometres from Karlstad city center. This year we will celebrate our 35 th anniversary. Most of the pupils live quite close to our school in modern flats. For the moment we have 110 pupils and they are between 6 and 13 years old. The 6-7 year-olds go to preschool-class. When they attend grade 1-2 they are 7-9 years old. We have only one grade 3 and they are between 9-10 years old. In grade 4 there are only 9 pupils so 4 of them are in a mixed class with grade 5. So they are 10-12 years old. And the other 5 pupils from grade 4 are together with the pupils in grade 6 and they are 12-13.
We also have an International class, where pupils get education in the Swedish language when they come here. Here they can stay until they know enough Swedish so they can join a class. For the moment we have pupils from 20 different nationalities.
We are 9 fulltime teachers and 3 part-time teachers. The school opens at 6.30 a .m. and closes at 6.00 p.m. Here the pupils come before school starts and they can have breakfast and after school they have different kind of activities until they go home in the afternoon. The pupils have P.E. with a special teacher who comes to our school for these lessons. The same goes for the teachers in Woodwork and Needlework.
A nurse comes to school once a week and once a month a doctor is also here. We have a educational specialist who helps us with children with special needs.

Our headmaster is a very busy man because he is our Head and also the Super Head for two more schools in the neighbourhood.

And finally we have to tell you that every day we have lunch in school for everybody and they don´t have to pay for it.



 

For more information about the school, consult the website: www.karlstad.se/skogsbackeskolan